Why did slowest girl in school create a run club

Hey Mover!

Let me be real with you…
I’m not the fastest runner.
I don’t run the biggest distances.
In fact, I used to get my mum to write me notes to get out of PE at school. 😅

So how the HELLY did I go from avoiding running at all costs… to starting a run club?

Let me take you back.

When I was a teenager training as a gymnast, our warm-up was a 3km run, before three hours of training (um, wild).
And guess what?
I was always the slowest and the last one back. Every time.

They’d literally come outside to check if I was still coming.

Running felt hard.
Gymnastics felt hard.
And honestly… I constantly felt like I wasn’t good enough to belong.

But I had this vision, to stand on the national stage and say, “I did that.”

So I kept showing up.
I surrounded myself with people who pushed me and supported me.
And in May 2018, I won the National Aerobic Gymnastics Championships.

That moment changed something in me.
For the first time, I felt proud.
Seen.
Enough.

After I retired, I decided to give running another shot.
Not to win anything, but to prove to myself I could still do hard things.

3km became 5km. Then 8km.
I remember finishing my first 8km and posting on Strava like I’d just won the Olympics.

I wasn’t the fastest.
I hadn’t gone the furthest.
But damn. I was proud.
And I started falling in love with the feeling of progress.

Naturally, I wanted to meet other runners who were showing up for themselves too.
So I started looking for my people…

What happened next? You won’t believe it.
Let’s just say, the first run club I went to……
It definitely wasn’t the Good Moves Club.

I’ll tell you everything in tomorrow’s email 👀
(Hint: It involves getting lost… and crying in my car.)

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Can’t wait to share more tomorrow 💛

Make a Good Move,

 Sam x